Cyberpumpkin

Well, I know I'm late to the party, but I'm not the only one, so I'll share, as well as I can remember. These are only games that I intentionally quit, not ones that I got distracted from or didn't have time for and never went back to, or tried and decided not to continue. Opoona - (Hey, don't judge me.) Cute design, tolerable story, decent gameplay (mostly), but the challenge of increasingly compulsory minigames came from sloppy controls and random chance. Mario Galaxy - I love this game so much, I spent hours just playing the first level over and over, both to collect the little candy bits (I forget the official term) but also because the music and design make it a wonderful place to visit. But between gravity mazes and "hurry or die" levels, the frustration got to be too much. Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess - Ragequit at the wagon chase. Okami - Possibly my deepest regret. I just couldn't get the hang of the battles that take place inside the force-field enclosed areas, partly because of the Wii controls. Also, I'm just not that good at (or patient with) Zelda-style item hunts. I might try again now that I'm generally healthier than I was at the time and my twitchy-game skill might be better. On the upside, this game helped me come (finally) to the realization that most game guides you find online are written with the assumption that you already know how to do everything, not for players who are extra-stupid thanks to weariness, frustration and having other things to do. Then it made way more sense when (for example) a walkthrough for Riven: Sequel to Myst will say "Now, go start the stone rings puzzle" followed immediately with "Once you've solved the stone rings puzzle, move on to--" Xenosaga - I tried, I really did. I had fallen in love with KOS-MOS before I even started playing, and my partner actually liked the game as much as I did. But as much as I enjoy JRPG level-grinding (sincerely; it's relaxing for me), the three-count wait before anything happens in battles was conspicuous even to me, and after some time with a stop-watch and calculator, I decided that I would never need to relax that much.

Hey, fellow Idle Thumbs readers! I've been listening for a little under a year and also listened to some of the back catalog. I've drifted in and out of different forums for a long time. To give you an idea: I left the Megatokyo forums because I thought it had gotten too big, and moved to Gaia, where I still have a user number that's under 3000. Around five years ago, I gave up most online interaction, even Facebook, because people are just so antagonistic so much of the time. I've heard good things about this community, so I thought I'd join. I recognize that this tells you next to nothing about me personally, but I've done this post enough times that I know it doesn't get read too much, and that people will get to know me well enough if I'm active in the community, or if they google. I'm going to put a link to my deviantART page, even though it goes against every instinct in my introverted temperament. But some people in my life (whom I trust not to auto-love everything I do) have told me (with increasing volume and annoyance) that I shouldn't be so shy about sharing, so here it is. cyberpumpkin.deviantart.com Welp, that's about it. See you around!

I am also in a position where I have to look for a job. My plan is to also go to graduate school, unless I get some kind of dream job before I end up in grad school. Good luck, comrade. Also, hello. I'm new.